maximum mood with subtle animating

Nice animation that achieves a nice mood with subtle animating.
The most notable element I saw while watching this, was the sense of depth.
-Slow camera movements through 3D looking space (ex. room)
-Foreground/main/background moving at different speeds for increased depth.

Ways in flash to show depth with flat characters/landscape:
-Foreground/main/background moving at different speeds.
-Layers lighter the further back in space they are.
-Blur filters (possible to gradient blur?)
-Shadows + light.


Shannon helped me to achieve this in photoshop. If I can't find a way to do this in Flash, I will go back to photoshop and try to improve the quality to vector standard.